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Summary: One of the most meaningful books I have read.
Review: Prager and Telushkin set out their thesis regarding reasons for antisemitism in plain terms at the outset. They debunk other theories and proceed through well footnoted historical examples that provide support and illumination. At times I found the book depressing; the stark and compelling truths and historical recounts were rough on my emotions. However, at those times I skipped ahead and read (and reread) the last section that has suggestions to counter and reverse antisemitism. The authors convey the gravity of the matter and conclude with uplifting and inspirational messages. I think this is "must" reading for thoughtful ideologues.
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Summary: Comment to Rob
Review: Rob-Did you even read the book? Or were you running on a tank of ethnocentric xenophobia? What your anti-semitic tract fails to mention is the role of classical Christianity. Your claims of insularity, financial manipulation, and general "otherness" can be laid exclusively at the feet of early Christain zealotry. Your "sources" hold zero scholarly merit, your assertions - based on no doubt many years of contact with Jews, lend absolutely no credibility to your thesis. As an anti-semite, you are merely a second rate revisionist begging for an audience. I was looking for a review of the book, you gave me an uninformed soapbox built of virulence and stupidity.
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Summary: Weak
Review: This book bugged me. The basic thesis, in my view, aside from being unpersuasive, amounts to self-congratulation.
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Summary: Thought Provoking Read On An Ever Increasing Hatred.
Review: This book seeks to examine the very roots of anti-Semitism, the term used to describe the hatred of the Jews. Many avenues are explored such as why the Jews have been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred directed towards any people group in history. Additionally, the book discusses why the Jewish state of Israel has now become the most despised country in the World today. The inherent hatred of the Jews within some elements of the Church and Islam are also studied, both from a historical perspective and also pertaining to the present day. Sections are also devoted to the anti-Semitism of the Nazi era and how it is also present today in relation to those who support or profess Zionism. A particularly interesting section discusses how much modern day anti-Semitism is hidden beneath a more respectable veneer bearing the anti-Zionist label. One such example given is that on page 172 which quotes from the statement by Shukairy, who was the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation before Yasser Arafat. Shukairy used to openly declare that "the Jews should be driven into the sea". The book proceeds to describe that when such a statement no longer became politically expedient or served the Arab cause, the statement was promptly changed to "the Zionists should be driven into the sea". Indeed many differing lines of thought are discussed and a variety of issues investigated. This book will certainly make the reader think and contemplate the real roots of this ongoing issue, which is described as being more prevalent now than at any time since the Nazi era. The book however does not address the spiritual aspect behind anti-Semitism which underlies the Christian Gospel message. Something which many may dispute, but which describes the real roots of this hatred as being demonic and which sets itself against the whole Jewish race, the coming & return of the Jewish/Christian Messiah together with the message of redemption to all mankind. A demonic hatred whose end is described in the book of Revelation within the Bible. In addition to this book I would respectfully recommend the books entitled "Jesus Was A Jew" by Arnold Fruchtenbaum & "The Anguish Of The Jews; Twenty Three Centuries Of Anti-Semitism" by Edward H. Flannery.
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Summary: Why Not?
Review: This book starts admirably with the obvious but non-PC premise that universal historical dislike of jews must be rooted not in some irrational hatred on the part of everyone else (a paranoid delusion) but in the detestable qualities of that tribe itself. Unfortunatelt, the authors go on to miss the most important of such taits, amply documented from Hitler to Dr. Loewenstein to Prof. MacDonald: insularity, collectivism, authoritarianism, false superiority, phsical fear, overreactive mothering, hoarding, financial manipulation, political and social subversion, and, in general, parasitism. As Dr. Pierce puts it most succinctly, the "corrupters" have a "special talent" to involve us in their dirty work (as with US aid to the murderous zionist entity), and it is this dubious talent for which they are despised more than any race, religion, or whatever current verbal dissimulation they call themselves by these days.
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Summary: Very Informative!
Review: This is an excellent book, which presents, for the most part, the Jewish dilemma. The authors, Scholar Dennis Prager and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, stress that Jewish philanthropy is very important, and they claim that Jews give more than any other people. The authors also stress that "although Jews represent less than 3 percent of the population, they are overrepresented in medicine by 231 percent, in psychiatry by 478 percent, in dentistry by 299 percent, in law by 265 percent, and in mathematics by 238 percent." The authors also make it a point to stress that the above achievements are "NOT, as is sometimes alleged, to some innately superior intelligence among Jews, but solely and directly to Judaism." Jewish law, according to Prager and Telushkin, MANDATES that Jews give PRIORITY to enabling one another to establish themselves in the business world as proprietors and as professionals.
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Summary: Fair and balanced ?
Review: To be fair about this book you need to check out the authors - both Jewish scholars deeply involved in their religious beliefs. Fair and balanced its not but it is a clear statement of the Jewish side of anti-Semitism. The only point I totally disagree with is the authors' point of view that any criticism of Israel is equivalent to anti-Semitism - some is and some isn't.
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Summary: I love this book
Review: Very insightful and well written, but what does one expect by a book written (or co-written) by Rabbi Telushkin? The book is dead on in its ideas about the origins of antisemitism.
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Summary: I love this book
Review: Very insightful and well written, but what does one expect by a book written (or co-written) by Rabbi Telushkin? The book is dead on in its ideas about the origins of antisemitism.
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